Japan has launched a brand new whaling fleet mother ship, the Kangei Maru, which can be anticipated will mean renewed frequent clashes with environmental groups that are also acquiring a new ...

Japan withdrew from the IWC in 2019 and resumed ... such as being able to process whale carcasses indoors. “No other whaling ship in the world is as large and state-of-the-art as this one ...

SHIMONOSEKI, Yamaguchi Prefecture—Japan’s new whaling mothership ... president of Kyodo Senpaku Co., the whaling company that owns the ship, during the ship’s departure ceremony.

Japan's whaling tradition dates back centuries ... they date back to the 19th century, when ships were equipped to process whale oil at sea. These vessels allowed whalers to immediately handle ...

Japan currently has just one fleet that operates on the high seas, comprising a mother ship and three smaller vessels. It also has five coastal whaling ships. In 2023, the total haul was 83 Minke ...

and are angry the industry has used tax money for a costly product largely unpopular with customers Sea trials have begun of the first dedicated whaling mother ship to be built in Japan in 73 ...

It seems that a Japanese whaling ship is currently adrift and on fire near the South Pole. According to New Zealand, there is a danger to some 250,000 pairs of breeding penguins and other local ...

Japanese whaling ship has caught fire near Antarctica, leaving one crew member missing and raising fears of environmental damage. The blaze on board the Nisshin Maru prompted the evacuation of its ...

Anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd has announced it will not intercept Japanese vessels in the Southern Ocean this season. The anti-whaling group's ships have confronted ships off Antarctica each ...

After that they sold it to the Japanese, who didn't use the ship ... and my memories – and started painting scenes of whaling ships. I've donated paintings to several whaling museums in the ...

As whaling ships became faster (with the advent of steam vessels ... the United States, Norway, the Netherlands, Japan, Germany, and the Soviet Union, but whalers from Australia and Brazil also had a ...

Watson had been held in Greenland since July on a 2012 Japanese warrant accusing him of causing damage to a whaling ship and injuring a whaler. "It's been five months and this is the first day of ...